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HB Latteland

| $0.99 | Holly Brown

Learn the latte art on your iPhone with HB Latteland – A must for every coffee lover - iPhone Footprint

I have always been fascinated by those beautiful designs on the surface of the latte which they call latte art. I never tried knowing how it was all done until i got a hands on experience as a professional barista with “HB Latteland” . HB Latteland is a game with a fresh concept and a great experience of preparing caffe latte. The game is divided into three sections- School, challenge and freestyle drawing/etching. You start with the school and play as a trainee who gets trained by the experts of the Holly Brown cafe.  Starting with some simple and basic latte arts you come across a variety of challenges in the game. Right from creating a simple heart, to designs like feathers, flowers and some that resemble animals and character, you will also be able to make your own designs with free hand just in case you want to try it over a real coffee cup. The game is played by holding your iPhone in one hand just like a pitcher of milk while simultaneously tilting it in corresponding direction to give a design over the surface of latte. The game is build with just 2 simple controls which are tap and tilt. You tap the pitcher to tilt it over the cup and later tap to etch the latte art if required while also keeping using the accelerometer of device to adjust the position of milk pitcher. The game is not really that strict on rules of physics and chemistry but if you lose a lot of time you are out of the challenge anyways. For each practice session or challenge you are awarded a rating in range of 1-3 coffee beans just like the star rating system themed for this game.  Generally ratings are calculated based on the moves Read More

oneSafe Photos - Secure Vault for Secret Pictures and Private Videos

| $0.99 | Lunabee Pte. Ltd.

Can your digital locker beat the security of oneSafe Photos : iPhone App Review - iPhone Footprint

Securing your personal data can sometimes be the most important feature you would like to mould according to your needs. Especially when it comes to unfortunate situations like losing you iOS device or just lending it to someone be it your colleague or your friends, you wouldn’t want your personal pictures be accessible to. oneSafe Photos does everything you would have seen on other secure digital lockers, be its robust AES 256 bit encryption of files stored, hardware encryption with pin, password or visual pattern and even destroying the data in case of security breach. Actually the visual pattern feels really good to use at the same time its easier to remember when choosing it over long complex passwords and pincodes that can be easy guessed out. The visual pattern lock is much advanced with multiple and repeated selection of points with the same 3×3 matrix pattern we have seen on Android phone. In this way your data is secure from both internal as well as external attacks. But in case you leave your device attended and someone desperately tries to access your private data, each time they enter a wrong password their image will be captured from the front camera and saved in the break-in report section where each wrong passcode entered with time & data is recorded. Codes are just for access, the real beauty is inside the safe vault of the app. The app has a beautiful and simple UI which will give you a glimpse of an actual metal vault with animation like opening and closing door and a rotating lever. All your pictures, videos or other documents reside within the locker organized into categories like family, holidays, finances, confidential, office etc. Each category can also have a second authorization if you feel information stored is highly Read More

InStudios

| $5.99 | Veena Karthick

Create your designs on the go with InStudios – iPad App Review - iPhone Footprint

InStudios iPad app is a clean and simple way to play around with your creative ideas. The way inStudios works is, it lets you choose the pictures from the vast library by doing a simple keyword search. All the pictures are fetched from online resources or you can also use the camera to save the picture in the store within the app. Starting with a beautiful color transition effect, the app takes you to the main screen through which you can visit the gallery and watch an array of beautiful images in a slideshow pattern. Though it may not be really easy to start with the app for most if the users due to the lack of a complete tutorial, but having done a couple of sessions with the app and going through the individual help sections in the app we now find it pretty easy to get going and create new designs with the app. Once you have all the pictures you need in your store, you may proceed with the design section which lets you access all your store pictures over head but if you wish to use backgrounds you will need pictures from camera or camera roll for using during the design process.  You can use the store images by just a tap over them on the dashboard. The images can be placed anywhere on the design area and zoomed with the scale but not the traditional pinch to zoom control which is not supported by the app currently. You can also merge images with the transparency control over head but only the topmost layer can be edited thereafter. Sadly there’s no option to choose layers and you will have no way to correct your mistakes if any. Finally you can save your creation to the album in Read More

Doodle Tales

| FREE | Europress

Bring your imaginations to life with Doodle Tales – iPad App Review - iPhone Footprint

Who doesn’t like Doodles? Whether it’s exploring Google Doodles a minute before you get back to searching or just an advertisement which reflects creativity while it also leaves a meaningful message, doodles are an interesting medium to have fun while also spark your inner creativity. Doodle Tales is not merely a drawing and painting app. The app comes with tons of tools to play with and a wonderful social experience. You can share your doodles with the whole world and let them rate and comment on it. The app starts with a splash screen followed by the menu where you can choose between doodles or tales. The doodle section lets you create doodle freely and flawlessly while the tales section is where you can turn your imaginations into a colourful story even with sound effects that can make the whole experience really amazing and feel just like reading a well crafted multimedia eBook.  Within both the doodle and tale section there are options to create new doodles or tales, view your previous creations in gallery and also access the community gallery with doodles and tales from all over the world. Doodles can be created using a wide range of colors and shades with the help of color pencils, crayons, sketch pens, brushes, colored chalk, stamp brushes and bucket fill. Just like any basic painting app Doodle tales also offers different type of shapes for quickly creating objects for example sun(circle), building(rectangle, stars and a few more. You will have a text writer to write notes on your doodles or to add expressions or speech bubbles to a character with the choice of colors available in app, beautiful font choices, font resizing, placement and free rotation controls to do it your way. The multi-touch ability to resize and rotate active element or Read More

ToucHotel

| FREE | UserFans

iPhone App Review – TouchHotel : The convenience of finding & booking an accommodation at your fingertips - iPhone Footprint

Whether it’s an unplanned business trip to another city or a vacation you have been planning for your family, traveling to a new destination can be challenging from the very first minute you land there if you do not have a an accommodation. Finding an accommodation can be really frustrating when there is a unplanned change in your trip and the hotels keep driving you crazy with apologies and “no vacancy” message. TouchHotel iPhone not just lets you find an accommodation but also lets you choose from the hotels based on your preferences. To start with you just need to enter or choose your city, specify the dates and number of guests. We tried it with location services enabled and strict filters for services offered within app. TouchHotel did not disappoint us rather we were amazed to see the wide number of choices offered along with sorting based on distance, price, and popularity. All the results carry details like hotel name, location, distance from current location, occupancy, price, rating and availability details. You can elaborate the details by tapping on a hotel to check short summary of hotel and its features, pictures of their rooms, services and amenities. You can also view the location of the hotel or multiple hotels on the map which can be helpful when you want to choose a hotel based on its location and route from a specific point. TouchHotel gives you the ability to book rooms without leaving the app. You can follow the standard booking procedure to choose the type of room from the list and enter your check in and checkout times along with credit card details to confirm your booking. Usually bookings are not charged and payable at hotel itself but credit card may be charged in case of a no-show or Read More

Saavn Music

| FREE | Saavn

Get ready to rock and roll with Saavn, find the best music anywhere, anytime for free - iPhone Footprint

Music is probably one thing we all love to consume on our iPhone’s and iPod’s but despite the huge while also limited memory capacity of your device you might not always be able to carry the whole world of your music favourites on your long vacation. Well if you are found of Indian music and have seamless connectivity to internet, “Saavn” is the app you must be looking for. Saavn brings you the hottest music to your iOS device. With hundreds of tracks added every week Saavn is a strong contender and stands in the app store top lists for music category in India, UK, Pakistan, US, Canada, Singapore, UAE, and more. Saavn iPhone app has three main sections- Saavn (main screen), Player and Search. The main screen of the app brings you ‘new releases’ which will include latest albums and movie songs, it also lets you access featured playlists that can be fun to explore new music and find the music by type, say  by an artist,  actor, occasion or a genre.  From the main screen you will also be able to manage your playlists by logging into the saavn.com account which saves your playlists and lets you manage them from multiple devices and thus keeps your favourites in sync. We expect to see this feature extend to the web version soon. A lot of times i have desperately desired to listen to a song on my mind but all i ended up is purchasing the whole album on iTunes or streaming it via YouTube when i just want to listen, not watch. But no more would you do the same again; just scroll up on the main screen and you will have a search box readily available. Search results will be available either as songs or playlists in a Read More

Bankers vs. Humans

| $0.99 | Neuchâtel Ltd.

Bankers vs. Humans iPhone Game Review - iPhone Footprint

Banker’s vs. Humans is a fun casual game. The game starts with a short story where mad protesters chase the bankers . You can play either as a banker or a human with four different roles – slick banker, fat trader, intellectual or a hippie in the game. You will find yourself chased by protesters, if you play as a banker. You jump off the plane to avoid those crazy protestors but they still chase you for no good. Your ultimate aim is to get promoted and rich. Alternatively if you play as a protester you face similar challenges but you will be chasing the bankers to stop another bank cause damage and ultimately get promoted as president and also get rich while doing so. During your fall from the plane you will be equipped with a parachute which will help you land safely on the ground. But that doesn’t mean things are as easier as they seem, you will face a multitude of challenges that obstruct your way and crash land you based on the type of role you choose to play. A SEC investigation official in the air, barbed wires, lightening in the clouds, protestor throwing boards at you, handcuffs, crazy jets that can damage your parachute, protestors in hot air balloons trying to snatch your cash and even worse  missiles.  Most of the challenges try to break you parachute which leave you freely falling and risk the loss of life but if you collect variety of gadgets available in the air like rocket launcher, jet-pack, golden parachute and many more, you can not only defend and recover from damages but also backfire over the protesters and save you money from their greedy intentions.  You clear a level and get promoted to next only when you safely land on Read More

Gravity Force

| FREE | Siemens AG

iPhone Game Review – Gravity Force : Experience the fun with gravity - iPhone Footprint

The first impressions of gravity force will remind you all the fun you had tilting and shaking your device with labyrinth but playing more and more of it over time makes you realise the game is quite different from labyrinth and the challenges you come across the various levels in the game. Gravity Force as the same suggests blends the interesting concept of gravitational force with varying intensities experienced on different planets. Your aim is to take the ball into the cup at the bottom of the screen. The game comes with three stages or planets namely the Earth, Moon and Jupiter. Due to the extraordinary difference between the gravitational forces on each planet you will come across unique challenges in each stage. The game does not include pot holes, rather has escape paths in higher levels from where the ball can be lost to space and thus you will need to start from scratch again.  Within the game you will also come across challenges like rotating objects, unstable hooked platforms, unhooked objects that are free to move in space but may also block the way of ball. With this physics game you will face a multitude of challenges that include changing parameters in each level and playing over new planets which changes the tilt sensitivity and response of your ball. Thus the tricks that work on one planet may not necessarily be useful on other planets and will experience a level in a completely new way. No matter what you are doing and using your hands for, Gravity Force is fairly easy to understand and play by just holding you iPhone in one hand whenever you have got a free moment or just play to beat one of your previous high scores for hours together. Gravity Force is available in Read More

Pop N' Slide

| $0.99 | Rhodesware

Pop N’ Slide iPhone & iPad Game Review - iPhone Footprint

Hopping and jumping over the obstacles, reaching you destination and collecting lot of goodies on your way is all what the new casual game Pop N’ Slide is about.  Popper the Penguin got the munchies and finds his refrigerator empty. Now that Popper is starving and willing to have fishes, you need to guide him in collecting them while passing through various locations like frozen mountains, ice caves, forests, the city and even the clouds. With a blast from the igloo Popper runs out to fulfill his appetite. Hungry popper puts in every effort you guide him for by jumping over slippery ice platform to standing the storm. Every fish Popper eats adds to your score as rewards, you also earn score for the distance covered. Popper loves to eat some fishes over the others, thus collecting the Golden fish earns around x10 the score to the regular blue fishes. The real challenge is collecting as many as fishes you can without falling of the platform and reaching back to your igloo to build it bigger each time. Pop N’ Slide is a really fast paced game; you will need to be on tip of your fingers if not toes in the game. Quick reflexes and skills are the real assets you need to have for the game. The game comes with unlimited number of levels with randomly generated challenges which means you would never be playing against the same challenges you have seen earlier. This really builds the challenging nature of the game with the increasing difficulty as you advance to higher levels. Completing levels in the game is also accompanied by objectives which need to be achieved to upgrade Poppers igloo to his dream ice castle. Head back to the igloo section from the main screen or just pause Read More

Space Retro

| $0.99 | Pundora Studios

Space Retro brings back the old school shooting fun – iPhone Game Review - iPhone Footprint

If you have been an active gamer in the mid 90’s you probably were one of those who spent their most of their time playing Shoot ‘em up by skipping meals, staying back home by making a good health excuse during schooling just to beat the boss stage and get to the next exciting level.  Space Retro brings the same original fun with old style pixelated graphics and evil enemies that are aggressively against your progress. Space Retro comes with 5 unique stages, 10 missions and multitude of enemies that offer a highly challenging and addictive gameplay. The game adds to the fun with bonus levels and boss levels in each stage. You start with the most basic powers and can later buy weapon upgrades as you advance to higher levels with stronger opponents. You will have 3 lives to win the game , without being hit by opponents weapons. Though you can get more space ships by sacrificing your score but doing too much of it can take your score in negative values. We did achieve some negative scores in our initial gaming sessions but that’s how the game makes a really challenging appearance on your phone. Every achievement gives you rewards and is shown up in the achievement section with its type and unlock level. Achievements and worldwide highscores can be a good reason you would love to play each level over and over again You can buy and upgrade you weapons by visiting the shop to load more destructive weapons on your space ship. These weapons can be re-upgraded a specific number of times to increase their effectiveness and power. You can turn on the tutorial hints which are shown each time you start your level and thus reading a tutorial is not long and boring activity you Read More